“And he said to all, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.’” Luke 9:23 ESV

The modern teaching of today in much of the institutional church is that we do nothing – no repentance, no obedience, and no submission to Christ as Lord. For, they call that “Lordship salvation” or “works-based salvation” and they use Ephesians 2:8-9 to try to prove their case.

But Ephesians 2:8-10 does not prove their case, and neither do many other Scriptures in the New Testament which teach that we are created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them: See next tweet...

There is a vast difference between the works God prepared in advance that we should walk in them &our own works, of our own doing, which we decide to do. We are not saved by our own works. But our salvation is not absent of works. But they are the works God designed for us to do.